September 4, 2020

Tragedy of the Commons & Tyranny of Small Decisions in the Philippines

The tragedy of the commons is a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action. 

The Tyranny of Small Decisions is a situation in which a number of decisions, individually small and insignificant in size and time perspective, cumulatively result in a larger and significant undesirable outcome

Here are some examples of Tragedy of the Commons and Tyranny of Small Decisions in the Philippines. 

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